Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holdings in it. He showed that the stock had lately (while he was running the company) ranged upwards from $224.25 to $394.25 per share. When it was split 4 for 1, it reached $142 per share. His holdings, he said, are now worth about one million dollars, a fraction of 1% of the capitalization...
...four categories he mentions. It might be assumed that the eliminations are rather beneficial than tragic and that both students and university benefit from the severing of a connection that hinders both in attaining their real goals. But Mr. Nichols' explanation does not cover more than a fraction of the total number of casualties. Artists, artisans, adventurers and scholars do not form as large a percentage of any student body as the figures would indicate and there remains a substantial residue of those whose failure must be accounted for on other grounds...
Nevertheless, Harvard is a pretty live under-dog. It isn't barking very loud, but there wouldn't be great surprise if Harvard squeaked through with a fraction more than the necessary 67 1-2 points...
...fielding of the team has maintained itself at its former high, the .946 average being only a fraction of a point higher than that of two weeks ago. The team's record to date stands at nine victories, four defeats, and one-tie. Howard Whitmore '29 has won five games, lost one, and tied...
...meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...